​​​​​January: Joan's maid, Anna Marie Brinke "Mamacita", leaves Joan's employment and moves to Germany, citing she's "tired of things being thrown at her". ​(Source: Webmaster's interview with Mamacita's grandson Mark in 2002)​​​Early January: After MGM press agent, Dore Freeman, along with the entire press department, is let go by the studio, Joan calls to cheer him up, and wishes him well, telling him "Don't live in the past." ​Joan had assisted Freeman in being hired by the studio 35 years prior.

March 15: Joan sends a congratulatory telegram to actor Marty Allen at a Founder's Day dinner presented by the Pittsburgh Press Club, which is saluting Allen.​​

March 31: It's reported in the press that Joan will co-star in John Springer's musical film "Follies". ​Joan had previously denied this, and cited it as being a rumor.​​​​April 19: Joan signs a three-year contract (April 19th, 1974 - April 18th, 1977) with the William Morris agency to represent her in feature films.

May 30: Joan is invited to the New York premiere of "That's Entertainment".​ ​​Among the other guests invited are; Lena Home, Mickey Rooney, Ann Miller, Van Johnson and Vincent Minnelli.​(Note: This website cannot confirm that Joan attended the premiere, only that she was invited to the premiere, which was held on this date)

June 19: It's announced that Joan will be a model at a Blackgama charity fashion show in November 1974.​​ Other celebrities scheduled to model at the fashion show include; Bridget Bardot, Diana Ross, Liza Minelli and Carol Channing ​.

September 16: It's announced Joan will host a ​​book-publication party for "They Had faces Then" at the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center in New York.

September 23: Joan hosts a book-publication party for John Springer's book "They Had Faces Then", which also honors Rosalind Russell at the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center in New York. ​Shortly after greeting the arriving guests, Joan quietly leaves the party abruptly, with guests later wondering why she had left. ​This is to be Joan's final public appearance at a notable public event.​ Several versions exist as to the events surrounding Joan's hosting of the party at The Rainbow Room.​​​

According to Crawford biographer Charlotte Chandler, John Springer told her that Joan offered to host the book party and was later upset that Springer asked Rosalind Russell to co-hostess. ​(Source: Charlotte Chandler's biography "Not The Girl Next Door")

According to news reports quoting Joan the following week, Joan was announced as host before John Springer had asked her. ​"The press agent-author of the book announced I'd be hostess before asking me.​​ I went along so's not to embarrass Roz." ​(Source: Quote from Joan in a Jack O'Brian article dated October 1st, 1974)

September 24-27: Following Joan's distaste for how she looks in photographs taken of her at the Rainbow Room book publication party, she cancels all public appearances for the remainder of the year. (Source: "Joan Crawford: A Biography" by Bob Thomas)

October 25: Joan declines an invitation to appear on this date as the guest of honor at the National Bottler's Convention in San Francisco, California.(Source: "Joan Crawford: A Biography" By Bob Thomas)​​November: Joan meets with British producer​​ Charles Castle and views a private screening of Castle's "This is Noel", an autobiographical film on Noel Coward. ​Castle brings the film to the US to be viewed by Joan, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Barbara Rush and Larry Hagman.​​November 15: Joan had previously canceled a scheduled appearance for this date to be a model at the Children To Children Foundation benefit given by the Mental Retardation Institute of New York. The event is held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. ​Among the models are; Ruby Keeler, Paulette Goddard, Alexis Smith and Raquel Welch.​​

December 17: It's reported Joan has canceled a scheduled Pepsi-Cola ​​function due to a black eye she sustained after a fall. ​ (This Pepsi-Cola function is most likely the December 1974 Pepsi-Cola convention Joan declined to attend as the guest of honor)

December 18: It's reported Joan is interested in participating in an autobiographical​ film and book with British producer Charles Castle. (Charles Castle would later publish the book "Joan Crawford: The Raging Star" after Joan's death in 1977)​